When going to a page on my boards, after 20 seconds the page jumps down to the footer! It doesn't matter if you're just reading a post or writing a comment, the blasted thing jumps down to the bottom of the page after 20 secs.

When going to a page on my boards, after 20 seconds the page jumps down to the footer!

This is actually supposed to happen just as you described it, but hopefully faster than 20 seconds. In other words, your browser will go to whatever address that shows up in the address bar. In your case, the browser will, and should refresh to the actual url that you've used.

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It jumps to the bottom of the page every 20 seconds, repeatedly, over and over.

So I land on the page and start reading the first post. 20 seconds later it jumps to the bottom of the page when I'm half way through reading the first post...not good. So then I use the scroll bar and find the point in the first post at which I was so rudely interrupted. I then start reading again and 20 seconds later....bump. I'm back down at the bottom of the page again

Rooze, in your case specifically, your forum appears to reload because of the Google ads that you run. So each time that a Google ad is swapped out, it will refresh whatever is showing in your browser's address bar.

Your forum appears to be operating properly without any unnecessary refreshing. Congratulations!

Not to throw a monkey wrench in the monkeying around that you had to do to get things working again, but according to my notes about Google ads, the rotation of ads shouldn't be refreshing your page. So you might want to put that back in, and see if your forum still operates the way that it should.

Good luck! You have a great looking forum.

In our forum, I now only include static ads.

In any case, this is the way browsers operate.

« Last Edit: Nov 15th, 2012 at 7:42am by Bill Myers »

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I'd removed the ads whilst trying to eliminate the problem and it didn't change anything so I put them back.

I've now removed them again, there are no ads on the forum page.

But the problem persists.

Bill, I'm thinking you must not be seeing what I'm describing as you wouldn't say this is normal if you could see it. Perhaps you're not waiting the full 20 seconds. Depablo sees it - he confirmed the issue and said coders would be along to resolve it in the post above.

Again, it cannot be normal operation. Imagine reading a post then 20 seconds in it disappears...

Bill, I'm thinking you must not be seeing what I'm describing as you wouldn't say this is normal if you could see it.

Yes, I'm getting the same thing. But when I do it, there's only the one refresh going on. After that, everything seems to be fine. Before when you had the Google ads swapping out about every 20 seconds it seems, refreshing of the page kept happening.

The source page of your YaBB.pl file didn't have any refresh commands, so I don't know that could be happening. So it's good that you came here. Somebody will surely come along to figure this out.

Generally speaking, and it applies to the forum I operate, if a particular page is being held up because it hasn't fully loaded, then while I'm scrolling after having started out in a specific place, the page will reload to where I started. But this only happens one time unless of course I manually refresh the page myself.

Hang in there. Help will be on the way.

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I'm glad we're on the same page with it, I was beginning to question my sanity

Rooze

You're good.

Interestingly, I'm still only getting that one refresh, and then everything is fine. No more refreshing of the page no matter where I'm scrolling. To me, that says something on the page hadn't fully loaded.

At least your pages aren't constantly refreshing any more; at least not with me.

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Hmmm....It's odd that removing the ads has stopped the multiple jumps but not that first one...

That is odd. The usual reason for that to happen is because a page hasn't fully loaded. But from what I can see, it is fully loading!

Now I think I'm going crazy!

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First, run your page through an html validator (You'll have to do it using the output of 'View Source' from your browser.) You have two divs that aren't closed or are improperly nested. Ditto some table cells.and rows.

Code

<div id="art-main">
<div class="art-Sheet">

aren't closed.

There are other errors as well, like two different character encoding declarations, two different language values.

Fix the html nesting and closures and chances are page will load properly

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YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)